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...Chris Crutcher...
...book jacket and title of The Deep End are blase; unfortunately, the content is not much different. Still, it is a shame that Chris Crutcher's publishers did not spend more on the title and jacket, because they mislead the reader into believing that the book is some excessively corny venue for housewives' entertainment...
...fact, The Deep End possesses a fairly suspenseful plot--it is billed as a "psychological thriller"--and Crutcher makes it believable by drawing upon his experiences as a therapist for abused children. He uses shock value to interest his reader, relying on the same brand of nauseating descriptions as Thomas Harris (The Silence of the Lambs...
...Crutcher bases the protagonist of the novel, Wilson Corder, upon himself. Corder is a child therapist who attempts to decipher what has happened to abused children by talking with them. He gets them to cooperate by using a controversial examination method called play therapy--he has children act out their trauma through toys...
...most intimate areas: home, church and recreation. Although more black families are moving into northwest Greensboro's nicer houses, the area remains overwhelmingly white. Beyond the downtown underpass, which traditionally marked the other side of the tracks, southeast Greensboro remains almost all black. Several years ago, Ron and Betty Crutcher, who are black and lived in a mostly white neighborhood, put their split-level house on the market to seek a less traffic-filled neighborhood for their young daughter. The real-estate agent suggested the Crutchers hide their family pictures, implying that white buyers would be less likely to purchase...